When Janessa Carroway finally gets her long-overdue promotion to captain, it comes with unfortunate strings attached. She's sent on a suicide mission with a barebones crew to commit a war crime. Why, it's almost a relief for the Norwegian Forest cat captain when everything goes completely wrong, and she finds herself on the far side of the cosmos, trying to befriend her enemy, so they can all get home together. Follow a crew that includes cats, dogs, squirrels, cyborg rabbits, and even a sentient mushroom as they wrestle with their predicament and try not to wrestle with each other.